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(Application filed Apr. 7, 1900.)

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER OLEARY AND EDWARD N. MCCARTY, OF LYTLE, GEORGIA.

HARNESS.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,635, dated November 12, 1901. Application filed April 7, 1900. Serial No. 11,973. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern..-

Be it known that we, PETER OLEARY and EDWARD N. MCCARTY, citizens of the United States, residing at Lytle, in the county of Walker and State of Georgia, have invented: ce'riainnew and useful Improvements in Ear-- ness, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to single harness for- Characteristic features of the improved harness are that it may be used in connection with the usual or any preferred bridle and reins and that it avoids the employment of the usual singletree.

The construction of the devices constituting the invention will be fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and their novel features will be defined and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the improved harness applied to a horse. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the harness detached from the shafts. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of one of the shaft-holders. Fig. illustrates a modification, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

The bridle 1, bit 2, and driving reins 3 (shown in the drawings) are all of the present well-known character and form no part of our invention, except as elements of a complete practical harness.

To each of the shafts 4 of the buggy or other vehicle is permanently attached a shaftholder, preferably comprising a piece of leather 5, bent around and embracing the shaft, to which it is secured by screws or rivets 5, which pass into the under side of the shaft.

6 designates the breast-collar, and 7 the traces, preferably formed integral with the breast-collar and extending rearward for attachment to the shaft-holders, as will be more fully described hereinafter. I

The breast-collar 6 is provided with straps 8, one at each side, for attachment to an eye 9 on a rein-holder 9, located centrally ent-he "saddle 10 of the harness, which latter is secured by the usual belly-band 11 and is also provided with rein-terrets 12 for the drivingreins 3. i

14.- designates a su pplemental belly-band arranged in rearpf the band 11 and connected to the traces 7 by strap ends 14?, passing through loops 7 in the ends thereof, and to the holdback-straps 15, (one at each side,) which latter are joined at their upper ends, provided with guides for the back-strap 16, and connected to the crupper 17.

The saddle 10 is provided at each side of the checkrein-hook 9 with a snap-hook 18, to

which are detachably secured the upper ends of saddle and holder straps 19, which secure the shafts to their holders.

2O designates the martingale, attached at its rear end to the supplemental belly-band 14 and passing through a guide-loop 21 on the breast-strap.

' The straps 19 are each provided at their upper ends with a loop or ring 22, adapted to engage the snap hooks, and said straps pass through guide-slots 23, formed by transverse slits, and through similar guide slots 24, formed by'slitting the shaft-holders 5.

The harness constructed as thus described is manipulated as follows in hitching the horse: The shaft-holders are permanently secured to the shafts, and the straps 19, being passed through the slots or openings in the shaft-holders, remain attached to the holders when the straps are detached from the snaphooks 18. After the harness has been placed upon the horse and the latter is placed between the shafts the upper ends of the bands are passed through the' guide-slots 23 and hooked over the snap-hooks 18. The lower ends of the straps 19 are then passed through slots on the trace and wound around the shaft, passing through the rear openings in the shaft-holders and through loops 25 in the lower ends of the holdback-straps 15 and attached to the strap ends 14 of the supplemental belly-band 14.

The improvements as above described may be employed in connection with a collar and hames instead of a breast-collar, as illus trated in Fig. 4. In this instance the traces are attached to the hames 26, and the breast strap and straps 8, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are omitted. It will be understood that the device can be used without the traces and breast-collar for speed purposes, &c.

\Ve claim- 1. A single harness comprising, a saddle provided with guide-slots, and engaging devices, shaft-holders attached to the vehicleshafts, and provided with guide-slots, traces having securing-loops, and straps passing through the guide-slots of the saddle and the guide-slots of the shaft-holders, and adapted to be detachably secured to the engaging devices of the saddle.

2. The combination, with the shafts of a vehicle; ofshaft-holders permanently secured thereto, and provided with guide-slots, a harnesssaddle formed with guide-slots, saddle and holder straps passing through said guideslots, means on the saddle for engaging the upper ends of said straps, traces and holdback-straps adapted to be secured by the saddle and holder straps, and a supplemental belly-band secured to the depending ends of the saddle and holder straps.

3. The combination, with the shafts of a vehicle; of shaft-holders permanently secured thereto, and provided with guide-slots, a harness-saddle provided with guide-slots, a checkrein-hook, and snap-hooks one on each side of the check-hook, traces adapted to be secured to the shaft-holders, straps passing through the guide-slots of the saddle and shaft-holder to secure the traces, a supplemental belly-band, and holdback-straps also secured by said straps.

4. The combination, with the shafts of a vehicle; of shaft-holders permanently secured thereto and formed with guide-slots, a harness-saddle also formed with guide-slots, a breast-collar provided with upwardly-extending straps, traces adapted to be secured to the shaft-holders, saddle and holder straps passing through the guide-slots of the shaft holders and saddle, means for detachably securing the upper ends of saddle and holder straps to the saddle, a belly-band for the saddle, a supplemental belly-band secured to the depending ends of saddle and holder straps, and holdback-straps secured by the saddle and holder straps and passing upward for connection with the back-strap of the harness.

In testimony whereof we aifix our signatu res in presence of two witnesses.

PETER OLEARY. EDVARD N. MCCARTY.

Witnesses:

T. J. DAVIS, A. J. DAVIS. 

